1st beamer - Looking at this one...

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/393989.htm

Hes looking for 2600GBP...it's a 96.

Why was this one sold for 400GBP extra when it's a year older. I know it's got leather seats. Seems to be the only real difference.
http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/353451.htm

What do you think?

I'm a new newcomer to BMW and have not much experience in buying cars. I know the lower control arm bushes are a big one...what other things do I need to ask...look out for.


Thanks very much.

At this stage, values of e34's like these has less to do with age and more to do with condition and history.  There is no indication of mileage on the newer car and its been messed with.  A clean, unmodified and relatively low mileage 525i Sport is considered a desirable car and ones that have been messed with, i.e. M5 looky-likey would be considered second best and worth a bit less.  If the mods and M5 look are what you are looking for then you can use this to your advantage.  However, if you have a mind to keep the car for a while and keep the mileage reasonable then the older car would probably get more of your money back at the end.

Again i cant see the photos but it might be worth checking this car out?

http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/359285.htm

 

 

Give Treynor up north a shout for a quote on a leather interior as the e32/e34 are compatible, there are some nice ones around for cheap. Bought a 7 series(e32) for 500.- plain for the interior and wheels a couple of years ago for the 530 sold unforteunately

Chris

Dergside wrote: Don't get too hung up on the VRT rate change. At the OMSP values of the e34, the difference between 30% VRT and 36% based on the same OMSP will be no more than about euro150.  I wouldn't feel the need to make a rush decision for a saving like that. If the suggestions being made at the moment that Gormless will roll back on the announcements made in Decmember are true in relation to road tax on cars imported from July onwards then there is even less reason to rush a decision.

Hmm, somebody told me on another board that some cars that do not have official emmision figures will get charged at full tax rate (whatever that is...but the same as 4.0L cars etc) after July.

I don't know if the E38 has official emmision figures.

It'll be interesting to see how the roadtax pans out.  Dead right, under the initial indications of the new roadtax regime, euro2k a year would be a killer for cars like the e34 525i. 

If the latest suggestions are followed through then its less relevant.  Going on the numbers published, it would cost the government more in lost revenue by having a large number of imports coming in after July and paying lower rates of roadtax based on co2 that it will cost them by letting off the relatively small number of imported cars that would otherwise have been hit with the euro2k roadtax. 

According to the figures from the Dept of Finance, only 4.7% of cars fall in to the top rate category (I don't know if imports are distributed across the rate categories in the same way).  That figure will diminish slowly over time as people respond to the new co2 based taxes and buy lower emitting cars.

There is a good chance that they will keep the roadtax on imports in line with the treatment of similar cars initially registered here.  The suggestion that they would be treated differently was a surprising anomoly when the details were first announced in December.  I'm fairly sure that there will have been some lobbying from groups such as SIMI about it too as their members would be disadvantaged with a lot of their stock if buyers could buy from the UK with potentially significant lower recurring running costs in erms of roadtax vs.their retail stock.

Given the figures on tax receipts released over recent days, I'd say there will be more emphasis on keeping the revenue stream of roadtax flowing at its current levels than introducing changes that would diminish it.

Edited by Dergside

beemerchris wrote: Give Treynor up north a shout for a quote on a leather interior as the e32/e34 are compatible, there are some nice ones around for cheap. Bought a 7 series(e32) for 500.- plain for the interior and wheels a couple of years ago for the 530 sold unforteunately Chris

Sorry there Chris. I don't actually understand your post fully.
Does treynor actually sell BMW's or does he just do leather outfits?